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Tooway Satellite Traffic Usage & Fair Access Policy Explained

 

Digiweb Tooway Satellite- Fair Access Policy

 

Please note this article is only relevant for Satellite Broadband Customer's on Tooway Value, Tooway Plus, Tooway Extra & Tooway Pro.

Digiweb Tooway service is graded into four different packages: Value, Plus, Extra and Pro, with a Fair Access Policy designed to ensure that exceptional usage by a few customers does not negatively impact on the normal usage of other customers.

Each package offers an agreed monthly traffic usage which is implemented on a rolling four weekly period. I.e. Traffic used within past four weeks must not exceed agreed monthly usage otherwise service will be temporarily slowed down until usage falls back in line with fair access policy. Traffic is defined as both downloaded and uploaded data. Traffic does not reset at the end of each four week period. Rather as mentioned above it is monitored on a four week rolling basis. This means that the traffic monitor always totals your traffic usage over the last four weeks.

Table below shows available monthly traffic per package:

Package

Tooway Value

Tooway Plus

Tooway Extra

Tooway Pro

Available Traffic per month

2.4GB

4GB

6GB

12GB


The four different service packages have been tailored to fit the varying requirements of home and business users, offering downlink speeds of up to 3.6 Mbps, Uplink speeds are available at up to 384 Kbps.

 

In addition in order to ensure equal and equitable access to the satellite network and to protect against network usage spikes the Tooway fair access policy also sets out agreed traffic usage limitations per hour, per 4 hour, per day and per week. These are shown in table below:


 

Tooway Value

Tooway Plus

Tooway Extra

Tooway Plus

Per Hour

120MB

200MB

300MB

600MB

Per 4 hour

240MB

400MB

600MB

1200MB

Per Day

400MB

650MB

1000MB

2000MB

Per Week

1000MB

1650MB

2500MB

5000MB

Traffic used in access of above will result in system being temporarily slowed until usage comes back in line with agreed fair access policy.


Below table shows the Speed's which can be expected if a user is impacted by the Fair Access Policy.
Please note this will only apply to customer's under fair access policy restriction.

 

 

Tooway Value

Tooway Plus

Tooway Extra

Tooway Pro

FAP Level

Download   

Upload

Download

Upload

Download

Upload

Download

Upload

1 Hour

192k

64k

256k

80k

384k

128k

512k

176k

4 Hour

92k–128k

48k-64k

92k-128k

48k-64k

192k

64k

256k

96k

1 Day

64k-128k

32k-64k

64k-128k

32k-64k

96k-128k

48k-64k

128k

64k

1 Week

32k-128k

16k-64k

32k-128k

16k-64k

64k-128k

32k-64k

128k-64k

64k-32k

4 Week

16k-128k

16k-64k

16k-128k

16k-64k

16k-128k

16k-64k

128k-32k

64k-16k



50% Traffic Discount


As traditionally the satellite network is less busy during night time hours, overnight usage volumes are discounted by 50% during Off Peak hours to reward use of the satellite network at times of traditional low usage.
Off Peak Hours are currently defined as between the hours of 10pm to 6am GMT / UT.

 

Online traffic monitoring portal coming soon
Digiweb are currently working towards developing an online portal whereby users can monitor their traffic usage on a daily basis. Until this is in place should users require any information regarding their current traffic usage or fair access policy standing they should
email
support@digiweb.ie . Digiweb Support will be happy to provide a graphical analysis of the traffic usage over past month.



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Last Updated
19th of January, 2010

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